Linda Somers ____

Hi Roman,

I am forwarding a newsletter to you. I receive these daily because I am
very interested in politics and history, and what is going on with our
government.

There are many good links if you see something that might interest you.
Today, it mostly is about the attack on the USA.

I hope i am not placing a burden on you by sending this....you certainly
don't have to read it all....i just thought there would be things that might
comfort you, your family, your friends......it is put out by democrats.com
which might give you a clue about my political beliefs......

Please don't panic...or be afraid....things will get better. It will be ok.
Reading some of this newsletter will show you how Americans have come
together over this.

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September 11, 2001: Another Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Emergency Contact Numbers

New Yorkers Rush to Give Blood

In the Midst of Uncertainty and Terrorism in D.C., Americans Show the Right
Stuff

Post Traumatic Stress: Web sites Offering Information and Aid for Disaster
Survivors and Witnesses

Post Traumatic Stress Site for Police and Emergency Workers

List of Resources for Helping Children to Cope with This National Disaster

Terrorism Strikes Home - As it Always Does, for Someone

Today, Let Us Dress Wounds

Laura Flanders Reports Live from Manhattan

Precautions Taken by States Around the Country in Wake of Terrorist Attacks

Bush Finally Speaks, But Leaves us Disappointed

Europe Stands by U.S. in Time of Crisis with Outpouring of Support and Show
of Solidarity

Putin Says Attacks Must Not Go Unpunished - But When You are Dealing with
Terrorists This Is Easier Said than Done

Citizen Q & A Session with Terrorism Expert Dr. John Steinbruner in Attack
Aftermath

Anti-Muslim Spin Will Serve No Purpose But to Perpetuate Hatred and Violence

Swedish Aid Workers in Afghanistan Plead with U.S. Not to Wreak Vengeance on
Innocent Civilians in Retaliation for Attack

After Two World Wars, a Depression, a Cold War and Vietnam, Now Yet another
Mountain Confronts Us

__September 11, 2001: Another Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Unknown terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing them in to
the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington DC.
Thousands are feared dead. Our hearts go out to the innumerable victims,
their families, and friends. We pray for our nation in this dark hour.
http://nytimes.com/2001/09/11/national/11WIRE-PLAN.html

__Emergency Contact Numbers

Here are emergency contact numbers, including a line for Pentagon personnel,
emergency response relief (to see how you can help), blood donation, a
clearinghouse number for the World Trade Center businesses, and for friends
and family of those on the four destroyed aircraft.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/contacts.html

__New Yorkers Rush to Give Blood

"Hundreds of people rushed to Manhattan hospitals Tuesday to give blood and
officials called in every available surgeon and nurse to deal with victims
of the World Trade Center attacks... The American Red Cross did not call for
emergency blood donations, saying it had 50,000 units ready to ship to New
York if needed. However, it urged blood donors throughout the country to
keep any appointments they have this week to give blood."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010911/aponline143258_000.htm

__In the Midst of Uncertainty and Terrorism in D.C., Americans Show the

Right Stuff

Writes Marc Fisher in the Washington Post just hours after most of central
D.C. (where the White House, Congress, et al. are sited) were evacuated: "On
the streets of Washington, there was no panic, no shouting, no crying. There
were quick, efficient cell phone conversations about whether the kids would
be safer at home or at school. There were strangers offering to drive
strangers home, or at least in that direction. A woman whose boyfriend was
at that moment in a plane somewhere over the East Coast was besieged with
offers of the latest news about hijacked planes.
People shared phones, radios, cars, stories. We didn't know what to do
except to keep on doing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10476-2001Sep11.html

__Post Traumatic Stress: Web sites Offering Information and Aid for Disaster
Survivors and Witnesses

After any catastrophic, traumatic event such as the World Trade
Center/Pentagon disaster, the emotional and psychological toll taken on
victims can linger long after physical wounds heal. Even those not directly
involved in the catastrophe, including witnesses and aid workers, can be
tremendously impacted by the experience. To get information on how to
recognize and effectively handle post-traumatic stress, please investigate this link.
http://www.vietnamveteranministers.org/ptsd.htm

__Post Traumatic Stress Site for Police and Emergency Workers

The police, firefighters, and emergency medical aid personnel on the scene
at the World Trade Center and Pentagon did their jobs with incredible
courage and determination, all the while remaining as calm as they could
humanly manage to be. However, an experience such as this can take a
tremendous emotional toll after the fact. Here is a site designed
specifically to help police officers (and other emergency workers) deal with
the very real and potentially devastating issue of post-traumatic stress.
Also see this link: http://ncpoptsd.freeyellow.com/page1.html
http://home.socal.rr.com/jpmock/ptsd/ptsd.htm

__List of Resources for Helping Children to Cope with This National Disaster

While today's terrorist attack will be difficult enough for adults to come
to terms with, even with their grasp of the political issues involved, it
will be far harder for children to deal with. Children can be affected
directly by loss of a loved one or those struggling to comprehend how and
why something like that could happen here. To aid in guiding children
through this difficult time, here is a list of resources that may prove helpful. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0911-130.html

__Terrorism Strikes Home - As it Always Does, for Someone

"At 8:45 this morning, American Airlines Flight 11 traveling from Boston to
Los Angeles with 92 passengers and crew, crashed into One World Trade Center
in lower Manhattan. Although I live in New York City, I didn't hear it
because I was 10 miles away in Queens. My son didn't hear it either - but he
was only four blocks away at Stuyvesant High School." So writes
Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik.
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4434

__Today, Let Us Dress Wounds

"At this time, let us in the the pro-democracy movement give ourselves to
the heart of democracy -- by sharing our best selves with those in pain, in
need, in emergencies, and in unfathomable grief. Let us focus in the
immediate on the spirit, the deeper soul and body of our nation -- to
address, with loving hearts, minds and hands, our physical, moral and
spiritual wounds, which wounds are so deep and many tonight. We are all
suffering tonight, but others suffer more than we do. Let us help them. Let
us suspend our grievances for a brief time, to focus on the well-being of
our fellow human beings." So writes Michael Rectenwald, Founder of Citizens
for Legitimate Government.
http://www.legitgov.org/sept11_wounds.html

__Laura Flanders Reports Live from Manhattan
Laura Flanders hosts an outstanding progressive talk show and lives in
Manhattan, where she is filing frequent updates. Here's her filing at 12:27
p.m. "It looks like nuclear winter out there. Police are trying their best
to close off all streets from my block south (Canal St.) I think of Baghdad,
Belgrade. Speculation on tv runs rampant. I am going now to St. Vincent's
hospital in Greenwich Village to give blood."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11899

__Precautions Taken by States Around the Country in Wake of Terrorist Attacks

Because of the randomness of terrorism, it is extremely difficult to
anticipate where and when another attack will occur, but many states are
taking precautions to reduce the danger and mitigate possible consequences.
Here's a run down of what's going on around the nation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/articles/states.html

__Bush Finally Speaks, But Leaves us Disappointed

The eyes of the nation were on Bush as he tried to rally us after the worst
attack on America since Pearl Harbor. His writers carefully struck a
reasonable tone, mostly avoiding anger and threats of vengeance. (We are
troubled by Bush's statement that "We will make no distinction between the
terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." Surely the
people who suffer miserably under tyrannical regimes - whether in
Afghanistan or Iraq - cannot be blamed for the sins of their tyrants.) But
Bush's delivery was hollow, failing to project the genuine compassion of
Bill Clinton after Oklahoma City, or the solid resolve of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt in 1941. It was quarrelsome old Rudy Giuliani who truly spoke for
the nation, when he sincerely choked up over the deaths of top fire
department officials who died only minutes after he left them standing by
the twin infernos. After waiting all day for Bush to finally speak, we were left disappointed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/msnbc/ms091101-20v.htm

__Europe Stands by U.S. in Time of Crisis with Outpouring of Support and
Show of Solidarity

European leaders have vowed to stand by the U.S. through the present tragedy
and have condemned the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon, and a site near Pittsburgh as monstrous. French President Jacques
Chirac was overwhelmed with emotion by the news of the attack: "The people
of France are entirely at the sides of the American people." Tony Blair made
an extensive statement, and decried the attacks as acts of "fanatics who are
utterly indifferent to the sanctity of life." German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder is already mobilizing a crisis task force in response to the
explosions. Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin, who has been riveted to the
television coverage, expressed his deep condolences. As always, the one
things terrorists never learn is that such acts draw the rest of the world
CLOSER together and will never achieve the desired goal of "divide (through fear) and conquer." http://www.europeaninternet.com/uk/news/news.php3?id=646361

__Putin Says Attacks Must Not Go Unpunished - But When You are Dealing with
Terrorists This Is Easier Said than Done

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his outrage at the attack on America
by as-yet unknown terrorists and said "such inhuman acts must not go unpunished."
We absolutely agree - in theory. The trouble is, how do you launch a wholesale retaliation?
Terrorists are by definition cowards who, in between attacks, hide in well-concealed "holes.
" When America bombarded Bin Laden's mountain stronghold a few years back in retaliation
for his > terrorist acts, Bin Laden escaped, but many innocent people were killed. We
suggest that instead of spending billions on a missile defense shield (which would have been
useless against this attack), the U.S. should spend millions on an expanded intelligence
capacity - one that does not rely on the Cold War "spy" approach, but draws on the most
advanced psychological profiling and surveillance technology possible. Brains and methodical
determination not brawn and instant retaliation are the most effective weapon against terrorism. http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/77050p-1081920c.htm

__Citizen Q & A Session with Terrorism Expert Dr. John Steinbruner in Attack Aftermath

In the midst of the confusion and fear generated by the attack, Dr. John Steinbruner offers an
expert, well-focused perspective. Steinbruner is one of the nation's leading experts on arms
control, nuclear weapons, and Russian foreign policy. He is the director of the Center for
International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). He served for 18 years as Director
of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, Principles of Global
Security, was hailed a "masterpiece" by reviewers. Steinbruner has served on major commissions
and advisory committees, including the Defense Policy Board, the Carnegie Commission on
Preventing > Deadly Conflict and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International
Security and Arms Control.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/nation_steinbruner0911.htm

__Anti-Muslim Spin Will Serve No Purpose But to Perpetuate Hatred and Violence

Today, a few news outlets seized on footage of one section of a Palestinian
town where clusters of Arabs appeared to be cheering and celebrating the
American catastrophe. FOX was the worst - it showed the same footage over
and over in a loop, which gave the impression of a far more extensive event
- unless you watched carefully enough to notice that the same 20 or so
Palestinians, most of them grade-schoolers, were being shown over and over.
Even if there was an outburst of outrageous, hateful behavior on the part of
some Palestinians, to blow this out of proportion will only fuel hatred and
violence, and inspire racist attacks against innocent Muslims. It certainly
will not help solve this crime or help those suffering in the wake of the
tragedy. We applaud the majority of news networks who avoided this
destructive, even dangerous form of yellow journalism.
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/77050p-1081736c.html

__Swedish Aid Workers in Afghanistan Plead with U.S. Not to Wreak Vengeance
on Innocent Civilians in Retaliation for Attack

__After Two World Wars, a Depression, a Cold War and Vietnam, Now Yet
another Mountain Confronts Us

"Here we are, long after our parents and grandparents saved the world from
fascism, more than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we've
finally had a look at the world our children stand to inherit -- orderly,
routine, comfortable, plentiful, and terrifying. That wasn't the collapse of
everything today, but the fall of something -- the hope that our kids might
grow up fearless, citizens of a global community that increasingly knew
peace and even prosperity. Now we have to sit down and explain how too many
old disputes still spawn new hatreds, that the world's conflicts have no
borders anymore, and that no amount of military force can stop acts of
terror. In this age, a zealot can make war by buying an airline ticket." So
writes Dan Rodricks of the Baltimore Sun on Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-rodricks.column?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dcolumnists

Linda Somers